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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Opportunity appeared. Bryce Harper was unsigned. Maybe his agent, Scott Boras, could not get a suitor to go above Giancarlo Stanton’s record $325 million pact, perhaps not even beyond the $300 million free-agent record of Manny Machado. If true, the Dodgers figured, Harper might need a path to save face, a shorter-term...